From 11th May to 13th July 2012 the gallery is pleased to present a retrospective exhibition
of the Spanish painter Fermin Aguayo entitled Inhabited Presence, Reflected
Presence at both the right bank and left bank spaces of the Gallery.
This exhibition retraces the itinerary of a great painter who died prematurely in 1977 at
the age of 51, and whom the gallery has promoted ever since the 1950s. Following in the
footsteps of a retrospective dedicated to him a few years ago by the Centro de Arte Reina
Sofia in Madrid, it is the first exhibition in France to bring together such a large number of
his major works, some of them for the first time. The works exhibited in the historical space
of the gallery situated rue de Seine, will provide the public with an overview of the different
phases and themes of the artist’s lifework, which are developed fully in the continuing exhibition
rue de Saintonge, from his earliest paintings of the mid 1940s to the last paintings
of 1975, two years before his death. Included in the exhibition are some rare works on
paper unseen publicly before.